Recent content by darkequitus

Your right, sorry. For all their reliability problems, at least OCZ made a forced garbage collection too for their barefoot Indilinx range. So, it can be done if companies could be bothered.

I use SSD tool 0.95. It works on my M4, Solid 3, and X25-v http://www.windows98.co.uk/ssd/

Intel quotes if you host write 100GB a day, your SSD is guaranteed for 5 years.

I get those speed with a 2nd gen Kingston in my laptop because it is only a SATA1. As a boot/low intensity drive (i for my laptop) it randoms read/write responsiveness still smokes a spinner in real world usage. Yes, it looks bad on a benchmark, but I spend more time using rather than...

I have disable Prefecth, superfetch, Search etc on Windows 7 as I have several SSDs. I have notice in performance monitor, a file 'c: \Windows\Prefetch\Readyboot.etl (not Readyboost) Thrash my drive for a good 15 minutes or so. Going to 'Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Performance...

I believe most read and write from memory are random and small (just look at the performance monitor). So the X25-v with it high Random R/W will shine - like any decent SSD really.

Use Windows 7 Disk Management from the control panel. IF you delete the partition from the SSD then create a new one, it will be aligned to 1024K. Or use disk part. 1. Type CMD from start menu and right click to run as administrator. Type the following: diskpart list disk select disk...

I have relegate my 60 GB Vertex to my gaming/other apps drive and placed a X25-v and my OS drive. I think its superior random r/w just makes it fee more responsive. The app I use on the X25 is Adobe Master Collection. Premiere Pro and Photoshop (with all those component load-in) feels snappier...